I remember Year1999 when i created my first email ID & when i today remember the same story i can't even imagine life without internet. It was a Sunday, we were just through with our intermediate exams. We got to know that internet cafe had come around near Govt. college. Myself & Puneet we thought of going to this cafe. Although Charges were Rs120/ hrs, we managed to spend fifty-fifty from our pocket moneys. We started with creating email ID in rediff, it took us almost 30-45mins as we were filling the registration form for the first time. At last we were able to create our first email Id's. In today's era, most of the kids who have started going to school now have their facebook & twitter accounts. Dont know how far this will gooooooo, but as of this don't have any end.
Its a small story of how the internet services had grown drastically in India since last one decade. There had been full transformation in this field. Before i start my story let u read the interesting facts with history of Internet in India:
Internet in India was established almost 10 years ago, as ERNET. It was a joint undertaking of the Department of Electronics (DOE) of the Government of India, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which provides technical assistance to developing nations. ERNET is one of the most successful operations that UNDP has funded. It established for India the idea that we can participate in the Internet. Currently ERNET operates many nodes and has a 64 Kbps link to USA via Mumbai.
All major nodes of ERNET are connected to each other using 9600 bps leased lines. These lines are being upgraded to 64 Kbps links. Over 200 academic and R&D groups exchange email with each other using ERNET. Over 8000 scientists and technologists have access to ERNET facilities. International access is provided over a 64 Kbps leased line, from NCST, Mumbai, to USA. Plans for ERNET include the creation of a satellite communication system to enable ERNET to reach locations which do not have good data communication links.
1995
- VSNL introduces internet in India via dialup in 6 cities on Aug 15,1995
1996
- Rediff.com launched by Ajit Balakrishnan
- India’s first cyber café called “Cybercafe” launched in a Mumbai hotel
1997
- First online banking site launched by ICICI Bank
- Naukri.com launched; this becomes India’s first profitable dotcom
- Sabeer Bhatia’s Hotmail sold to Microsoft for $400 million in USA ; he becomes the poster boy of the Internet age to Indians
1998
- India introduces new ISP policy which ends VSNL’s monopoly on internet
- Sify becomes India’s first ISP
- First major hacking case-teenagers hack data on BARC’s servers
- Launch of Nasscom by Dewang Mehta, a chartered accountant by profession to promote IT industry
- Cybercafés start mushrooming across Indian cities
1999
- Indiaworld sold to SIFY for $115 million;this triggers off the dotcom boom
- Large number of dotcoms appear, mostly modeled as e-marketplaces but have untested revenue models
- Webdunia, India’s first and most successful Hindi portal launched
2000
- IT ACT 2000 passed by the Indian Parliament
- Bazzee.com launched based on the EBay model
- Indya.com launched with Rs 4.5 crore campaign blitz
- Foreign portals set up shop in India; Yahoo & MSN launch Indian sites -yahoo.co.in & msn.co.in respectively
- Birth of online journalism-Tehelka.com exposes cricket betting scandal
- ITC launches E-Choupal initiative to take the internet to the villages
2001
- First cyber crime related arrest-2 arrested for hacking go2nextjob.com
- Indian Railways launches online ticketing site, irctc.com
- India’s first cyber crime police station opens in Bangalore
- Dotcom bubble bursts – some sites close, some go into hibernation
2002
- HomeTrade fiasco– brokerage site launched with Rs 65 crore blitz goes bust
- New dotcoms start emerging with more refined revenue models
2003
- AirDeccan becomes first airlines to offer online ticketing in India
- Phase of consolidation and stocktaking for Indian dotcoms
2004
- Dotcoms start exercising exit options
- EBay buys out Bazee.com & Monster.com buys Jobsahead.com
- First Indian Dotcoms IPOs are successful– indiabulls.com & indiainfoline.com
- A high profile cyber crime exposes sheer inadequacy of India’s IT laws - Baazee CEO jailed for MMS scandal
2005
- 40 million net users (4% of total estimated net users in the world)
- 200,000 cyber cafes in country (accounting for 60% of net users)
- more than 1000,000 users do online share trading
- half a million broadband connections
- Rs 570 crore total e-commerce transactions in India
- Average no of transactions per month – 440000
- Average value per transaction – Rs 1080
- Indian Railway online ticketing accounts for 63% of ecommerce(Rs 370 cr.)
- ITC E-Choupal demonstrates rural internet adoption - expands to 5300 kiosks serving 3.2 million farmers
2010
-Wire free internet services is also a revolution which is spreading all around in the co-corporate cultures.
- Social sites have transformed internet going mobile.
| YEAR |
Users
|
Population
|
% Pen.
|
Usage Source
|
| 1998 |
1,400,000
|
1,094,870,677
|
0.1 %
|
ITU
|
| 1999 |
2,800,000
|
1,094,870,677
|
0.3 %
|
ITU
|
| 2000 |
5,500,000
|
1,094,870,677
|
0.5 %
|
ITU
|
| 2001 |
7,000,000
|
1,094,870,677
|
0.7 %
|
ITU
|
| 2002 |
16,500,000
|
1,094,870,677
|
1.6 %
|
ITU
|
| 2003 |
22,500,000
|
1,094,870,677
|
2.1 %
| |
| 2004 |
39,200,000
|
1,094,870,677
|
3.6 %
|
C.I. Almanac
|
| 2005 |
50,600,000
|
1,112,225,812
|
4.5 %
| |
| 2006 |
40,000,000
|
1,112,225,812
|
3.6 %
| |
| 2007 |
42,000,000
|
1,129,667,528
|
3.7 %
| |
| 2009 |
81,000,000
|
1,156,897,766
|
7.0 %
|
Comments
Nice Work Man,Lots of data collection.
U Must hv worked really hard for this.
Really,cant imagine life now without the Internet.HEHEHEHEHE!!!!!!!!!
I havn't worked hard at all for this data all because of internet everything is just available with a click & thanks to Google search engine who had made surfing Internet easier.